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Untold Stories Of 1949
''Big River, Big Sea — Untold Stories of 1949'' () is a collection of stories written by Taiwanese author Lung Ying-tai published in August 2009. It tells in detail, the events from the surrounding the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War including Chinese families that were broken up by the civil war that ended in the Kuomintang’s defeat in 1949, with some two million escaping to Taiwan. Lung Ying-tai spent more than 10 years researching material for the book and spent 400 days in Changchun, Nanjing, Shenyang, Matsu Islands, Taitung County and Pingtung County paying a visit to survivors of the Chinese Civil War in order to record their stories. Reviews Leo Ou-fan Lee wrote in ''Muse'' that 'the problem f the booklies in the author's over-ambitious intent to write a testimonial saga of mammoth historical scope - all in 450 pages or 150,000 words. It should have been three times that size.' Lung had said in the public that she especially wanted readers from mainland China t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lung Ying-tai
Lung Ying-tai (; born 13 February 1952 in Kaohsiung) is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili' (). Lung's poignant and critical essays contributed to the democratization of Taiwan and as the only Taiwanese writer with a column in major mainland Chinese newspapers, she is a writer in Mainland China. Described as a "public intellectual of the Chinese-speaking world", she spent 20 years based outside Taiwan in the US and Germany where became widely known for her criticism of the Kuomintang's martial law regime. She has since become a critic of Mainland China's increasing restrictions on press freedom and civil liberties. She has written more than 30 books. Lung Ying-tai has held two positions within Taiwan's government as Taipei's first Cultural Bureau Chief (1999–2003) and as Taiwan's first Culture Minister (2012–2014). Early life Lung's father, Lung Huai-sheng (), a Kuomintang military police officer, fled Hunan and mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pingtung County
Pingtung County is a county located in southern Taiwan. It has a warm tropical monsoon climate and is known for its agriculture and tourism. Kenting National Park, Taiwan's oldest national park, is located in the county. The county seat is Pingtung City. Name The name ''Pingtung'' means "east of Banping mountain", referring to a nearby mountain known as Banping mountain (). History Early history Aboriginal inhabitants of Liuqiu Island (13 km misouthwest of Taiwan, and now part of Pingtung County) killed Dutch sailors on two occasions. In response, in the spring of 1636, Dutch sailors carried out a punitive campaign that became known as the Lamey Island Massacre. Modern-day Pingtung County and Kaohsiung City were part of Banlian-chiu (萬年州; ''Bān-liân-chiu'') during the Kingdom of Tungning (1661–1683) and Fongshan Prefecture (鳳山縣; ''Hōng-soaⁿ-koān'') during Qing dynasty rule (1683–1895). Until the seventeenth century, this area of Taiwan w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Censorship In China
Book censorship in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is implemented or mandated by the PRC's unique ruling party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and is currently widespread in China. Enforcement is strict and sometimes inconsistent. Punishment for violations can be arbitrary many times leading to long sentences for crimes against censorship laws. The CCP and the government have historically been sensitive to any opinions on the politics and history of China and its leaders that differ from currently sanctioned opinions. In the 2010s, book censorship spread from mainland China to Hong Kong. The CCP's handling of the censorship of media and literature has been scrutinized by countries and groups around the world. The CCP's actions have also resulted in actions of defiance in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. History Book censorship has been a method used by China since the start of the Qin dynasty (221 to 206 BC). Both domestic and foreign books which do not meet the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About Taiwan
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th Century In Taiwan
This is a timeline of Taiwanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Taiwan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Taiwan and History of the Republic of China. See also the list of rulers of Taiwan This is a list of the highest-ranked rulers based on the island of Taiwan. Dutch and Spanish Formosa (1624–1662) Dutch Formosa (1624–1662) The Dutch Empire, during the period of the Dutch United Provinces and under the auspices of t .... 3rd century 7th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century Citations References * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * . Reprinted 1995, SMC Publishing, Taipei. * * * * * * * External links Time Mapping Taiwan– YouTube {{Timelines of Chinese history Taiwanese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese-language Books
Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the world's population) speak a variety of Chinese as their first language. Chinese languages form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family. The spoken varieties of Chinese are usually considered by native speakers to be variants of a single language. However, their lack of mutual intelligibility means they are sometimes considered separate languages in a family. Investigation of the historical relationships among the varieties of Chinese is ongoing. Currently, most classifications posit 7 to 13 main regional groups based on phonetic developments from Middle Chinese, of which the most spoken by far is Mandarin (with about 800 million speakers, or 66%), followed by Min (75 million, e.g. Southern Min), Wu (74 million, e.g. Shangha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Ao
Li Ao (, also spelled Lee Ao; 25 April 1935 – 18 March 2018) was a Chinese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician based in Taiwan. Li has been called one of the most important modern East Asian essayists today; his critics have called him as an intellectual narcissist. He was a vocal critic of both the main political parties in Taiwan today, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party. Li rejected being labeled " Pan-Blue" because of his opposition to the Kuomintang. He was given much media exposure in Taiwan due to his popularity as a writer. Background Li was born in Harbin, Manchukuo to Li Dingyi ( 李鼎彝), a professor of Chinese, and Zhang Kuichen (). His family had ancestry in Wei County (modern-day Weifang), Shandong Province, and Fuyu County, Jilin Province. When Li was two years old, the family moved to Beijing, where Li's father worked in the government's opium suppression bureau. There, Li's father was accused of being a tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Ou-fan Lee
Leo Ou-fan Lee (; born 10 October 1942) is a Chinese commentator and author who was elected Fellow of Academia Sinica in 2002. Lee also was a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Princeton University, Indiana University, University of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard University. Lee has served as columnist of several publications, such as the '' Yazhou Zhoukan'', ''Hong Kong Economic Journal'', ''Ming Pao'', and ''Muse''. Biography Lee was born in a wealthy and highly educated family in Taikang County, Henan in 1942. Both his father Li Yonggang () and mother Zhou Yuan () were musicians and educators. His given name "Ou-fan" is the Chinese version of Orpheus, the Greek god of music. Lee graduated from National Hsinchu Senior High School and National Taiwan University. He first took a master's degree from University of Chicago, where he was inspired by T.H. Tsien to study Chinese literature. He then went on to study at Harvard University, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taitung County
Taitung County (; Mandarin pinyin: ''Táidōng Xiàn''; Hokkien POJ: ''Tâi-tang-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Thòi-tûng-yen''; Paiwan: ''Valangaw'';lit:Eastern part of Taiwan) is the third largest county in Taiwan, located primarily on the island's southeastern coast and also including Green Island, Orchid Island and Lesser Orchid Island. Name While its name means "Eastern Taiwan", it is also known as "Houshan" () by many of the locals, meaning behind the mountains or the back mountains. History Qing Dynasty In 1887, the new Fujian-Taiwan Province included Taitung Prefecture as one of four prefectures. Empire of Japan During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, Taitung County was administered as Taitō Prefecture. Republic of China After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945, Taitung was established as a county of Taiwan Province on 25 December the same year. Geography Taitung runs along the south east coast of Taiwan. Taitung county, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Chinese
A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings. Traditions can persist and evolve for thousands of years—the word ''tradition'' itself derives from the Latin ''tradere'' literally meaning to transmit, to hand over, to give for safekeeping. While it is commonly assumed that traditions have an ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time. Various academic disciplines also use the word in a variety of ways. The phrase "according to tradition", or "by tradition", usually means that whatever information follows is known only by oral tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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